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Del 6 - Om uträkning av omfång

Om uträkning av omfång 6

AvSolvej Balle

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

259 kr

Vi har nu kommit till den sjätte delen i Solvej Balles storslagna romansvit om sju delar. Tara Selter är fortfarande fången i den 18 november – dagen som upprepar sig om och om igen. Hon har kommit till södra Italien där hon och en grupp människor samlas kring uråldriga skrifter som bevarats under askan från Vesuvius år 79 e.Kr. I enlighet med den epikureiska förmaningen om att "man ska sköta sin trädgård" börjar några odla grönsaker i övergivna växthus medan andra låter sig uppslukas av de förkolnade papyrusskrifternas gåtor. Allt i hopp om att finna en öppning, en utväg ur den dag som håller dem i sitt grepp.

Del 1 - Om uträkning av omfång

Om uträkning av omfång 1

AvSolvej Balle

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

249 kr

VINNARE AV NORDISKA RÅDETS LITTERATURPRIS 2022

”…när du slår ihop boken för sista gången har du blivit – ja, kanske inte en annan, men heller inte längre exakt densamma som när du läste bokens första mening. Det finns ett annat uttryck för det: stor litteratur.”

Jonas Eklöf, Vi Läser

”Jag kan inte minnas när jag senast läste något som grep mig så, som både är spännande som en thriller och öppnar för inre, existentiella bråddjup.”

Oline Stig, Sydsvenskan

Tara Selter bor i Clairon-sous-Bois i norra Frankrike med sin man Thomas. De handlar med antikvariska böcker. Den 17 november åker hon till en antikmässa, tar in på hotell, köper böcker och besöker några vänner. Där bränner hon sig på handen. Nästa morgon upptäcker hon att tidningarna i hotellmatsalen fortfarande har gårdagens datum och att samma saker händer som dagen före. Böckerna hon köpte är borta och hon går för att köpa dem igen. Sedan reser hon hem. Thomas undrar varför hon kommer redan och Tara förstår att hon är den enda som upplever den 18 november. Hela världen står still, vädret är detsamma, alla gör exakt samma sak dag efter dag. Men för Tara fortsätter tiden att gå. Såret på hennes hand läker och hennes hår växer. Varje dag förklarar hon för Thomas vad som händer och varje dag tror han henne. Till slut tröttnar hon och flyttar in i gästrummet. Thomas saknar henne inte eftersom han tror att hon ska komma hem nästa dag. Tara inleder olika strategier för att stå ut. Hon skriver och promenerar, hon köper en stjärnkikare och gör sig vän med himlavalvet, hon sätter ett streck i dagboken för varje dag som passerar och när 18 november närmar sig på nytt reser hon till samma mässa och tar in på samma hotell.

"Om uträkning av omfång" är en hisnande utforskning av vår plats på jorden: av minne, tid, historia, kärlek, ensamhet och frihet.

Del 3 - Om uträkning av omfång

Om uträkning av omfång 3

AvSolvej Balle

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

249 kr

Tara Selter är fortfarande fast i den artonde november. Utan framgång har hon försökt hitta tillbaka till den vanliga tidslinjen. Hon har prövat att skapa årstider genom att resa norrut för att hitta vintern och söderut för att hitta solsken och sommar. Nu upptäcker hon att hon inte är den enda som är instängd i den artonde november.

Solvej Balle fortsätter sitt hisnande utforskande av vår plats på jorden: av minne, tid, historia, kärlek, ensamhet och frihet.

Del 4 - Om uträkning av omfång

Om uträkning av omfång 4

AvSolvej Balle

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

249 kr

Tara Selter har varit fast i den artonde november i 1892 dagar nu. Utan framgång har hon försökt hitta tillbaka till den vanliga tidslinjen. I denna fjärde del visar det sig att det inte bara är några få, utan tämligen många människor, som är fast i den artonde november.

Solvej Balle fortsätter sitt hisnande utforskande av vår plats på jorden: av minne, tid, historia, kärlek, ensamhet och frihet.

Del 5 - Om uträkning av omfång

Om uträkning av omfång 5

AvSolvej Balle

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

249 kr

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”Det är Solvej Balles stora bedrift, att hon får mig att vilja fortsätta flyta med framåt.

Trots att tiden står stilla.”

Anna Tullberg, SR Kulturnytt

Tara Selter är fast i den artonde november, i en dag som upprepar sig. Hon har varit fast i tiden i 4541 dagar nu. Tara har besökt sin man Thomas i Clairon-sous-Bois, medan hennes vänner, som även de är fast i den artonde november, har övergivit huset i Bremen där de har bott. Huset har blivit för litet och maten och veden är på väg att ta slut, istället beger de sig mot Val Benoît, ett övergivet universitetsområde i utkanten av Liège.

Solvej Balle fortsätter sitt hisnande utforskande av vår plats på jorden: av minne, tid, historia, kärlek, ensamhet och frihet.

Del 2 - Om uträkning av omfång

Om uträkning av omfång 2

AvSolvej Balle

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

249 kr

VINNARE AV NORDISKA RÅDETS LITTERATURPRIS 2022

Tara Selter, som fortfarande är fast i den artonde november, och har varit det i 368 dagar, beger sig hemifrån för att få tiden att börja gå och årstiderna att växla. Uttröttad reser hon hem till sina föräldrar och övertalar dem att fira en tidig jul. Hon ger sin mamma ett löfte om att hitta en väg och att lyssna sig fram.

Solvej Balle fortsätter sitt hisnande utforskande av vår plats på jorden: av minne, tid, historia, kärlek, ensamhet och frihet.

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize

AvSolvej Balle

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

154 kr

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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURETara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin? Will she ever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation and confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. (As she puts it: “That’s how little the activities of one person matter on the eighteenth of November.”)Balle is hypnotic and masterful in her remixing of the endless recursive day, creating curious little folds of time and foreshadowings: her flashbacks light up inside the text like old flash bulbs.The first volume’s gravitational pull—a force inverse to its constriction—has the effect of a strong tranquilizer, but a drug under which your powers of observation only grow sharper and more acute. Give in to the book's logic (its minute movements, its thrilling shifts, its slant wit, its slowing of time) and its spell is utterly intoxicating.Solvej Balle’s seven-volume novel wrings enthralling and magical new dimensions from time and its hapless, mortal subjects. As one Danish reviewer beautifully put it, Balle’s fiction consists of writing that listens. “Reading her is like being caressed by language itself.”

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On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)

AvSolvej Balle

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

146 kr

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We’re a little more than halfway through Balle’s hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle’s riveting project continues to wring ever more fascinating dimensions from time and its hapless, mortal captives. In Book III we saw the addition of a handful of new characters to Tara’s world—fellow travelers within November 18th—and now Book IV heralds the arrival of many others, and soon to be even more, roaming uncertainly through the same November day. Could this be the first stirrings of an alternate civilization? The big house in Bremen turns into the headquarters for this growing group of time-trapped individuals. But who are they and what has happened to them? Are they loopers, repeaters, or returners? A brilliant modern spin on the myth of Babel in the Book of Genesis, Book IV asks urgent questions, concerning the naming of things, of people, and of the functions of language itself–must a social movement have a common language in order to exist? Snatches of conversation, argument, and late-night chatter crowd onto the pages of Tara’s notebooks. Amid the buzz and excitement of a new social order coming into being, Book IV ends with a sudden, unexpected, and tantalizing cliffhanger that no one—not even Tara, our steady cataloger and cartographer of the endless November day—could have foreseen.

On the Calculation of Volume I

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

AvSolvej Balle

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

153 kr

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** A NEW YORKER, OBSERVER AND PARIS REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR **'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren GroffShortlisted for the International Booker Prize this is the first volume of the poetic, page-turning European masterpiece about one woman's fall through the cracks of time.Tara Selter has slipped out of time.It was clear that the day always returned to its starting point, but that there were also variations. It was not mechanical, there was more to it. It was the same day which kept recurring, but it was not set in stone. Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday.She comes to know the shape of the day like the back of her hand - the grey morning light in her Paris hotel; the moment a blackbird breaks into song; her husband's surprise at seeing her return home unannounced. But for everyone around her, this day is lived for the first and only time. They do not remember the other 18ths of November, and they do not believe her when she tries to explain.As Tara approaches her 365th 18th of November, she can't shake the feeling that somewhere underneath the surface of this day, there's a way to escape.

On the Calculation of Volume III

'Thrilling . . . humming with new possibility' Observer

AvSolvej Balle

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

157 kr

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The third volume of the Booker-shortlisted masterpiece about a woman lost in time. WINNER OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL PRIZE'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss'Extraordinary.' Daisy Johnson'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren GroffTara Selter is no longer alone.I have met someone who remembers. Yesterday. That is to say, I met him yesterday. But he remembers yesterday, too. He remembers that we met yesterday.Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the pattern: a man has changed his shirt. The man is Henry Dale, and he remembers all the days that have come before. He knows that time has fallen out of joint. Now they are two of a kind - trapped in the eighteenth of November, but no longer alone.Together they learn to share their present; their voices grow hoarse recounting their small battles against it and their bewilderment at the disintegrating world. Henry sees things differently to Tara: he does not think that time will put itself back together and he does not think that the future will come around. But he makes her realise that she is no longer the same person she was before this fault in time. And he makes her believe that there may be others to find within it.A New York Times notable book of 2025

On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)

AvSolvej Balle

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

152 kr

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A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November nineteenth.Book II of Solvej Balle’s astounding seven-part series On the Calculation of Volume beautifully expands on the speculative premise of Book I, drawing us further into the maze of time, where space yawns open, as if suddenly gaining a new dimension, extending into ever more fined-grained textures. Within this new reality, our senses and the tactility of things grows heightened: sounds, smells, sights, objects come suddenly alive, as if the world had begun whispering to us in a new language.And yet as the world announces itself anew, Tara’s own sense of self is eroding, making her wonder just which bits of her are really left intact? “It is the Tara Selter with hopes and dreams who has fallen out of the picture, been thrown off the world, run over the edge, been poured out, carried off down the stream of eighteenths of November, lost, evaporated, swept out to sea.” She begins to think of herself as a relic of the past, as something or someone leftover, similar to the little Roman coin she carries around in her pocket, without a purpose or a place.Desperate to recover a sense of herself within time, Tara decides to head north by train in search of winter, but soon she turns south in pursuit of spring, as she tries to grasp on to durational time through seasonal variations. Amazingly, On the Calculation of Volume Book II is all movement and motion—taking us through the European countries of the North and the South, through seasons, and languages—a beautiful travelogue that is also a love letter to our vanishing world. To be continued.

On the Calculation of Volume II

'A literary phenomenon nearly forty years in the making' The Cut

AvSolvej Balle

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

158 kr

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Winner of the Nordic Council Prize for LiteratureThe second volume of the Booker-shortlisted masterpiece about one woman's fall through the cracks of time.'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren GroffTara Selter is building her own year.If I want seasons, I will have to build them myself. If I am to have a future, I will have to build it myself. I put the pieces together, little fragments of season and I write it all down.Tara has been stuck in the 18th of November for over a year's worth of days. She still wakes up to the same newspapers, and the same blank faces when she explains that she has seen this all before. Until one morning, she boards a train and finds herself in a new day. It is still the eighteenth of November, but the faces are different, the weather is colder.She realises that she has found a way out of her endless autumn. By moving across Europe rather than through time, she can collect the ingredients for the seasons: the thin film of ice on puddles, the fresh spring breeze, the blazing summer sun. As she travels, she begins to hope for a new future, one that will run in parallel to the eighteenth of November, one that she must build for herself.

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Del 4 - On the Calculation of Volume

On the Calculation of Volume IV

'The greatest literary work of the 21st century' Herald

AvSolvej Balle

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

157 kr

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It feels as though we have each been walking along our own path in the same forest. And now, we have found our way to a clearing and suddenly we see that we share not only the clearing but the forest too. You think it begins when you meet, but in fact, our stories were already entwined.'Our century's answer to Proust' New York Times 'Astonishing' London Review of Books 'Unforgettable' Hernan Díaz'A speculative masterwork' The CutThe fourth volume of the poetic, page-turning and International Booker shortlisted masterpiece about a woman's fall through the cracks of time.Tara Selter has found a new home. In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November. Her days with Henry, Ralf and Olga revolve around the daily routines of practical chores: gathering provisions, splitting firewood. But one morning, there are five new arrivals at their wrought-iron gate.As more people continue to arrive, their home fills with movement, voices fill the air; a flurry of people asking questions, sharing their eighteenths of November. Slowly, they settle into a new routine and Tara begins to breathe a little easier. Could they create a new world inside the eighteenth of November?

Del 5 - On the Calculation of Volume

On the Calculation of Volume V

'Our century's answer to Proust' New York Times

AvSolvej Balle

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

157 kr

Kommande

** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** Tara Selter has become someone new.It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was. Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless grind.Tara has returned to Thomas, but she is no longer the person he remembers. She has now spent twelve years in the eighteenth of November, while Thomas has endlessly repeated his identical day. He struggles to reconcile Tara as she is now with the Tara he loves. And so she rejoins her friends, with whom she finds companionship and understanding. They set off for Val Benoît, where other time-stranded people have created a community built on curiosity, conversation and even optimism. As the eighteenth of November continues to expand, Tara's connection with those around her deepens, and a life beyond Thomas comes unexpectedly into view.'I was smitten.' Richard Flanagan'Hypnotic . . . a philosophical experiment illuminated by a novelist's sensuous and humane way of looking.' New York Times'A storm of brilliance.' Daisy Johnson'The greatest literary work of the 21st century so far . . . these books will be seen by future scholars as the work which best captured the soul of our times.' The Herald

On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)

AvSolvej Balle

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

152 kr

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEIn the marvelous third installment of Balle’s “astonishing” (The Washington Post) septology, Tara’s November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that “it is autumn, but that we’re not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and yellows of the trees are here to stay. That yesterday doesn’t mean the seventeenth of November, that tomorrow means the eighteenth, and that the nineteenth is a day we may never see.” Where Book I and II focused on a single woman’s involuntary journey away from her life and her loved ones and into the chasm of time, Book III brings us back into the realm of companionship, with all its thrills, odd quirks, and a sense of mutual bewilderment at having to relearn how to exist alongside others in a shared reality. And then of course, what of Tara’s husband Thomas, still sitting alone day after day, entirely unawares, in their house in Clarion-sous-Bois, waiting for his wife to return? Blending poetry and philosophical inquiry with rich reflections on our discombobulating times, Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume asks us to consider: What is a single person’s responsibility to humanity and to the preservation of this world?

On the Calculation of Volume (Book V)

AvSolvej Balle,Jennifer Russell

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

181 kr

Kommande

It’s been a while since Tara Selter was all alone in her repeating November day. It’s been even longer since she was one half of a unit called T&T Selter, an antiquarian book dealership she ran with her beloved husband Thomas. Her hazy days of confusion are behind her, and so are her desperate and doomed attempts to reattach herself to linear time. Tara has begun to settle into a new life, with new habits, and new people, and so have the many other time-trapped individuals who have joined her along the way. And yet we can’t help but wonder whether she and her fellow travelers will ever find their way out of a trap so inexplicable and profound—and will they even still want to? In Balle’s hands the time loop becomes a parable of loss, longing, marital loneliness, and our own mortality. With gradual, breathtaking power, Balle deftly explores a series of existential and philosophical questions, and grapples with the form of the novel itself, charging full steam ahead in reinventing and reinvigorating its possibilities. And now we’ve arrived at the thrilling fifth book of Solvej Balle’s septology. “It’s a sensation.” (The New York Times Magazine).